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 CHAPTER II.

THE SACRED TRIDENT OF ATLANTIS AS IT APPEARED IN THE HEAVENS 22,000 YEARS AGO.

RELIGION based upon the stars of heaven, which men had gazed upon for thousands upon thousands of years, was the most natural one that could be conceived.

Their knowledge of the planetary system was very great, for they had, by patient labor and striving, and by prolonged observation and calculation, not only gained a large amount of knowledge but they had, through their spiritual development, became possessed of means of gaining occult knowledge not obtainable through the physical, even with the aid of the best instruments of modern times.

Therefore the Ancient Magi taught a good, pure, scientific and rational religion, with symbolism of the grandest kind and a system of morals not surpassed by any modern system.